Has the trend toward quiet quitting spread to your team yet? Probably...

According to a recent Gallop poll, over 50% of people are quiet quitting, so most likely, if you are a manager, this is half of your team!

The idea spreading virally on social media is that millions of people are not going above and beyond at work and are just meeting their job description. This is a problem for you as a team leader, because most likely the roles in your team require some level of extra effort to collaborate with colleagues and meet your customer needs, so you can hit your targets

According to the Gallup poll, the ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees is now 1.8 to 1. This is the lowest in almost 10 years. As a leader or manager, it will come as no surprise to you that in terms of timing, the fall in engagement began in the second half of 2021 and happened alongside the rise in job resignations. Managers and leaders among others, experienced the greatest drop

The overall decline in...

'Quiet quitting’ is the new work trend – what if rather than quietly quitting on work, you are quietly quitting on you?

Quiet quitting was first talked about on Twitter by Dr Justin Carrington in March 2022. He warned of an age of 'quiet quitting' due to burnout, poor leadership, and lack of empowerment. Next thing it was all over TikTok, where users promoted it as an alternative to joining ‘the Great Resignation’, seeing disillusioned workers resign post lockdown, as companies gave up WFH. However, the problem then became finding another job

The idea of quiet quitting is that more people are choosing to simply meet their job description, do the minimum required, and even wait in the wings for redundancy to be handed out

The thing is, if this is you (and according to a recent Gallup poll you are not alone, 50% of the US workforce are quiet quitting) it’s not just work - you could also be quiet quitting your passions, your dreams, your relationships, your friendships, or other commit...

If you are an ambitious and determined leader of people, you will no doubt be aware of the latest leadership challenge to get your energy, talent and leadership skills focussed on. Quiet quitting

The importance of improving our people’s engagement and energy has increased focus with the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy releasing the Surgeon General’s Framework for Mental Health & Well-Being in the Workplace. The Surgeon General’s message released with this framework is powerful. It is a signal to leaders and employers that it is time to stop asking questions about whether employee well-being is their responsibility. There are 5 areas which are called out, protection from harm, connection and community, work-life harmony, mattering at work and opportunity for growth

A recent Gallop poll also found that over 50% of the US workforce are disengaged. This may well be a shocking statistic, yet when you remove your own ‘too busy, too burnt out, too ambitious’ spectacles and look around...